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Working with planes

Working with planes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with planes

- When we first open new part inside of SOLIDWORKS we have the three fundamental planes, the front plane, the top plane, and the right plane, and generally we're going to use one of those to get started building our model. What happens if you want to create a hole, maybe to have some funny angle through a part or what if you want to create a feature that's not on one of those planes or we don't have a face to start on? That's when we need to start creating our own planes. Now there's a bunch of different ways to do this. I'm going to go through all of them. First things, go over to "Features" and come up here to "Reference geometry." Click on the drop-down and click on "Plane." Now the most basic type of plane is just going to be an offset plane, so I'm going to choose one of my existing planes, so maybe the top plane, or the front plane and then just type in an offset value. It's going to take the plane I started from and I'm just going to type in how far I want to offset that plane…

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